Re: Problem with -export-symbols-regex and symbol prefix

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Will,

* Will Newton wrote on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:09:03PM CEST:
> I am trying to build some mainstream packages on a non-mainstream
> Linux architecture that prepends an underscore to symbol names (e.g.,
> "foo" in C is "_foo" to the linker).

Sounds like Libtool might first need porting to that architecture.
What is it, what's non-mainstream about it?  Can you build Libtool
2.2.6a on it and show how its testsuites fare (see README for how
to run them)?  Thanks.

> Many packages will limit the
> number of symbols they export with -export-symbols-regex e.g.,
> -export-symbols-regex "mysyms_*". This doesn't work for my
> architecture even though libtool appears to understand that a symbol
> prefix is needed to some degree.

Please show an example libtool link command that fails, plus all of
its output, as well as './libtool --config'.

Thanks,
Ralf